The Philadelphia Mummers : building community through play / Patricia Anne Masters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masters, Patricia Anne, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parades--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

Parades.

New Year--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

New Year.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Philadelphia Mummers (Organization)--History.

Philadelphia Mummers (Organization).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Every New Year's Day since 1901, the Philadelphia Mummers have presented a spectacular show of shows that raucously snakes and shimmies its way through city streets. The Mummers Parade features music, dance, comedy, and mime, along with dazzling costumes and floats. Although the lavish event is now televised to a wide audience, it is still rooted in the same neighborhoods where it began. This book explores the community created and annually reaffirmed by the Philadelphia Mummers.

Contents:

From play to play community : the early years of the Mummers parade

Expanding the play community : the contemporary parade

Blacks, women, and the "new" immigrants : the Mummers and diversity

"Going up the street" : the experience of the parade

Rituals and the play community

Family, club, and neighborhood

The experience of play

The Mummers past and future.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-224) and index.

ISBN:

9781282047396

1282047396

9781592136117

1592136117

OCLC:

316206227